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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] counter: Introduce the Generic Counter interface
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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Date:   Sun, 25 Mar 2018 10:04:09 -0700
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On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 17:56 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:46:10 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 17:33 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > checkpatch.pl --strict (but take into account some of the warnings will
> > > be silly so don't fix them all).  
> > 
> > What checkpatch output is silly?
> 
> Sorry - bad word choice.

No worries.  Just checking.

> It guides you to where you should look very
> well, but sometimes the patch author should consider the warning and
> decide to ignore it.  

Very true.  It's a brainless tool and all who use
it should seriously consider ignoring its output
whenever they deem appropriate.